At least he’s honest about the fact that as a coach his main goal was to vote in a way that helped his team and his conference. There aren’t a lot of guys willing to go on record about that. He also correctly points out that active coaches simply don’t have the time to pay attention to everything that’s going on nationwide. Those statements ought to be enough to get people talking realistically about tossing the Coach’s poll. So maybe something good eventually comes from this. Something unintentional, but something good.

Quote Of The Day

“Just because they tweet something emotional during that time, that doesn’t matter,” Smart contended. “It gives the other team motivation. But our team was motivated to play Texas. Texas outplayed us, outcompeted us. They outcoached us. They out-physicaled us. They did a lot of things better than us.” — USA Today, 1/2/19